Open Transaction Network Threat Detection With Multi-Layer Graph Analysis

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Solution Overview

Problem

Open transaction networks are vulnerable to threats such as unauthorized access, fraudulent transactions, and malicious activities, which can result in financial harm and reputation damage, and existing security measures are inadequate in addressing these issues efficiently and dynamically.

Innovation Solution

A scalable threat management system and framework that employs functional modules like multi-lingual authentication, sensitive data minimization, profile detection, cross-border data monitoring, and transaction monitoring, utilizing artificial intelligence and neural networks to identify and mitigate potential threats in real-time across multiple network layers.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If existing security measures are used in open transaction networks, then basic protection is provided, but they are inadequate in addressing threats efficiently and dynamically

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesecurity effectivenessVSAvoiddynamic threat response
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts security measures based on real-time threat assessment. The threat management system continuously monitors transaction patterns, updates risk profiles, and adapts authentication requirements according to the current threat landscape, transforming static security rules into dynamic responses that evolve with emerging threats.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback loops where transaction outcomes, threat detections, and system performance data are continuously fed back into the threat management module. This feedback mechanism enables the system to learn from past security events, refine its threat models, and improve its response effectiveness over time, addressing the inadequacy of existing measures.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If comprehensive threat monitoring is implemented across multiple network layers, then security coverage is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesecurity coverageVSAvoidsystem structure
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The threat management system is segmented into distinct functional modules including authentication module, data minimization module, profile detection module, cross-border monitoring module, and transaction monitoring module. Each module operates independently at specific network layers, managing its own security functions while interacting through standardized interfaces, thus reducing overall system complexity despite comprehensive coverage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system employs a universal threat management framework that can be applied across multiple network layers (application, presentation, transmission) without requiring separate specialized systems for each layer. The same core algorithms and data structures serve multiple security functions, reducing redundancy and simplifying the overall architecture while maintaining broad security coverage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Reliability

If real-time threat evaluation is performed continuously, then threat detection capability is improved, but processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvethreat detection capabilityVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-computing risk profiles, authentication thresholds, and threat detection rules before actual transactions occur. Historical data is used to establish baseline behaviors and risk patterns in advance, enabling the system to make rapid real-time decisions without performing complex calculations during critical transaction moments, thus reducing processing time while maintaining detection capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies partial action by focusing computational resources on high-risk transactions and patterns rather than uniformly processing all transactions with full analytical depth. Low-risk transactions undergo streamlined processing, while only transactions triggering risk thresholds receive comprehensive real-time evaluation, balancing detection capability with processing time requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS12567059B2System and method for managing threats in open transaction networks
Publication Date: 2026.03.03 PAYPAL INC
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AI summary

Systems and methods for managing threats in a network including applying, at a first layer, a first request obtained from a first computing device to a first graph to determine one or more first embeddings and one or more second embeddings, classifying, at a second layer, a second request obtained from a second computing device as a first request type or a second request type based on applying the second request to a second graph, predicting, at a third layer, an authenticity of a call sequence obtained from the second computing device based on a sequence threshold, and sending the call sequence to a third computing device based on authenticating the call sequence. The first request is a transaction to be performed by the second computing device and the second request is a second processing transaction to be performed by the third computing device based on the first request.